Nothing can top Nirvana’s Krist Novoselic catching his bass guitar with his face at the 1992 MTV VMA’s.

Not so much entertain but how about fiona apple’s meltdown onstage?

Simon Lebon squeecking out the words to Wild Boys at Live Aid in front of a Biliion people.

how about “Paxl” Rose trying to hit the high notes at the end of paradise city at the VMA’s a couple of years ago. Fucking sad. And hilarious!!!

Bono falling off of the stage in Miami on the opening night of the Vertigo tour.

Keith Moon detonating his bass drum on “The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour”.

Besides the endless cymbal tossing, headstock bashing, and bareknuckledom of The Kinks entire history, I’d have to say that Lemmy getting a blow job on stage has to rank up there near the top.

Then of course, is the classic Axl Rose freakout moment, of when the fan was taping a concert, and Axl jumped offstage and attacked the fan which gave Axl a good enough ‘reason’ to stop the concert. You can’t beat a bitchy prima donna.

Granted a commercial shoot, but the Pepsi Michael Jackson blazing hair incident is a classic

I once saw a local Milwaukee band called Marishino perform a cover of Zeppelin’s Immigrant Song. Now that was a gaffe.

Jack Bruce attacking Ginger Baker on stage at a Cream concert.

How bout when James Hetfield almost burned alive?!

As much as this talentless biatch deserves it, how about Ashlee Simpson’s ‘hoe-down’ dance when she was busted for lipping on Saturday Night Live!?

Dang, I didn’t see that it was already mentioned. I was wondering how no one else remembered that!?!? Sorry….

How about when that dude from Dillenger Escape Plan took a dump on stage?

i think dimebag darrell getting shot to death on stage was a real bar-raiser…

granted,,backstage,,,but vince neil punching izzy stradlin was a bad “hair metal” day

Madonna on The Show of David letterman…..Don’t say the f”##$
word again

Stop Making Sense, wherein David Byrne gently chides the stagehands by switching a song’s lyric to “Someone forgot to turn out the lights”.

God bless her, Fergie’s fashion choices…anytime, anywhere.

what about jim morrison exposing himself (allegedly) and then getting arrested for it. what a boner

Do you think Jay-Z likes the granny panties?

In Chicago, I saw Nick Cave out of his mind wasted on his knees apologizing profusely to Blixa Bargeld who had to take over singing when it became clear Cave couldn’t fulfill his role as lead singer.

Keith Moon ingesting Horse Tranquelizers prior to stepping on stage and then passing out during the WHOs performance. He was thereafter replaced by an audience volunteer. “CAN ANYBODY PLAY THE DRUMS!?” I think that takes it all.
Pete Townshend: “Apparently someone told him that if you take half of one of these horse tranquelizers (meant for loading into a gun and shooting the horses) and have a glass of brandy you get a great high. Keith said “Fu&k it man, I’m Keith Moon!” and took the whole lot of them!

In the history of onstage gaffes, few can rate higher than then-Skid Row vocalist Sebastian Bach, who allegedly threw a glass bottle into the audience while on tour with Aerosmith, injuring a young fan. The a 17-year-old female, received a broken nose and skull as a result. The incident was captured on video and can be seen on Oh Say Can You Scream?, released in 1990.

how bout roger waters spitting in a fans face in montreal

L7 – the tampon incident.
Woodstock ‘94 gets ugly
Rolling Stones – Hells Angels kill someone (I guess that’s a lot worse than a gaffe)

The lead singer of The Juliana Theory turning to face his drummer while dropping his mic stand in the process at an Austin show. Unbeknowst to him, a roadie crawled on stage, setting the stand back up. When the lead singer turns back to face the crowd, he head bangs right into the stand and continued singing with blood gurgling down his face.

I know we’re getting into intentional deeds which may not be a gaffe, but Sid Vicious squatting on a fans head and spraying diarhea on it during th final show of their American tour.

how about when perry of jane’s addiction gets a shoe thrown at him

Well this wasn’t really entertaining for me but I’m sure some of you are gonna think it’s hilarious… I was at a Simple Plan show, someone threw a full plastic bottle at the lead singer, which hit him in the face and cut his face open.

The only two I can think of that haven’t been mentioned yet:

1) Does anybody remember the incedent where Bobcat Goldthwait “set the Tonight Show on fire” (it was a big deal over nothing – Bobcat goes into detail on his last live album). As overrated as it was, it was hilarious to watch Jay “Putz” Leno’s reaction as his voice (which already sounds like the guy on the German [?] TV clip that started this whole discussion) go up yet another octave as he starts screaming at Bobcat. Priceless.

2) A friend of mine from L.A. swears he saw a Replacements gig where they were so drunk that they couldn’t play their instruments, and instead ended up buying one drink for every fan in the club. If that really did happen, THAT’S rock & roll.

I once saw Jewel get hit in the face with a frisbee while she was performing “Pieces of You” at an HFStival in the 90’s. She got pissed and stormed off.

Brian

–Stooges-era Iggy Pop panhandled in the ticket line for drug money, shot-up offstage, walked on, introduced himself, and collasped, woke up in the hospital.

–At a Jesus Lizard show, a beer bottle arcs from the audience and explodes on singer David Yow’s head. Yow stumbles arounds, finds the mic: “Good shot, dick.” Check it out on youtube.

–A wild fan runs onstage during a Stone’s show. Keith Richards unstraps his Strat, brains the dude, conntinues “Satisfaction.” Dig that on youtube too.

–Oh, didn’t Richards also get fried by a raw power cable during some early Stone’s basement show.

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ok- how ’bout back in the day for the Red Hot Chili Peppers on the ‘One Hot Minute’ tour when they were touring with Silverchair? They brought out some strippers while the band (silverchair) were playing and the dancers got tangled in the bands’ guitar wires and band AND dancers just fell all over the place. THAT was a major gaffe.

Two words:
GG ALLIN

Awhh, I so wanted to be the first one to point out the Nirvana bass player catching his bass right in the face on the VMAs…

Funniest thing I have ever seen was when I saw the Ramones… the singer for the opening act, who’s name escapes me, had 2 fantastic moments. First, he was trying to do the Roger Daltrey-microphone-swing and got the microphone caught in the overhead light rigging. Had to stop the show for 10 minutes while a roadie climbed up to get it down. Then, when they started again, he tried to do a no-hands-backflip and knocked himself out cold. The band eventually played the last 2 songs as instrumentals…

And I seem to recall that the mighty Betty Boo gave up her live music career when she dropped the mic at a concert and the vocals just kept going…

If Ahslee Simpson had slid and crashed to the floor, it would have been a ‘hoe-down.’

at a 2003 pearl jam show in cleveland during one of the last songs eddie was walking around onstage with a tambourine and fell backwards off the front of the stage. nasty fall. then he got back onstage and through the tambourine into the stage, breaking it, and continued the song.

Who can forget the time Sinead O’Connor ripped up a picture of the pope on SNL.

*Sade had a meltdown on-stage – had to cancel the whole tour.
*Idiot Ted Nugent had some kind of seizure or something.
*Beastie Boys getting tossed in jail in England for batting a full can of lager into the audience a la Skid Row.
Jimi Hendrix’s guitar accidentally catching fire (just kidding!)

Oh – and Ozzy most definitely did NOT bite the head off a live bat. It was dead when it fell onto the stage from the rafters above, and he MIMED doing it, then tossed it into the audience. Even he plays it up as real now, the wanker.

how about a no talent hack getting his name for being a useless zot in humanity Pete Doherty .Never heard his music but I probaly dont want to.Loser junkie.Stop putting his name in print.

How about Justin Timberlake exposing Janet Jackson’s ugly-ass nipple at the Superbowl Half-time?

Karen O falling off the stage, nearly breaking her neck and ending up in a wheelchair and neck brace

How about when God smote Michael Jackson and set him on fire.

keith richards falling off a coconut tree and the resulting cancellation of some stones european dates (including the one i was supposed to attend). damned bastard!

The superbowl half-time show a few years back where Gwen Stefani sounded god-awful, and Shania Twain couldn’t even LIP-SYNC successfully. Guess it’s not a half-time show until someone f—s up.

Neil Young’s nose at The Last waltz

Avril lavigne at the vma’s a few years back she couldn’t each any of the notes and sounded so flat. She was the most manufactured pop star of them all

Craig Nicholls of the Vines had a breakdown on stage and assaulted a cameraman, resulting in a lawsuit, a diagnosis of autism and the departure of the band’s bassist.

Pearl Jam getting pelted by shoes at Indio, CA 1996 only to have Eddie Vedder catch one and lick the sole…twice

What about Avril Lavigne covering a Metallica song during their MTV Icon show or whatever its called…i dont know whats worse; her performing the song or Metallica actually liking it.

I once saw Grand Funk Railroad in concert — that was my biggest concert gaffe. Anyway, during this way too long drum solo, the drummer repeatedly pretended to hit the drum with his head. It was mildly amusing about the first 13 or so times he did it. In the same vein, Dino Valenti, the vocalist of Quicksilver Messenger Service, played a conga with his elbow. He spit on the conga, then dragged his elbow over it, several times. After each time he’d stop and look smug, like aren’t I cool?

Beyonce has a nice ass.I saw Eddie Van Halen trip over his big feet while playing guitar and hands left the fretboard and the guitar kept playing. It was prerecorded. FEB.1992 BIRMINGHAM ALABAMA AT THE B.J.C.C.

Linda Ronstadt at Hunter College in ‘75 staggers on to the stage then blows chunks fifteen seconds into her first song.

We all left the auditorium singing, “I’ve been cheated.”

this might be an urban legend but i can recall when morrissey from the smiths was performing at a place in brisbane.someone told him that it used to be an abbotoir and morrissey being a staunch vegetarian simply walked off stage midway through the show.

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